Monday, 5 June 2017

Soft, Chewy and Addictive

I cannot believe that I actually enjoyed these soft and chewy cookies. In the past, I would have turned my nose up at them and declared them "lau hong" (stale).

To me, cookies must be crispy and crunchy and I could not understand why some people preferred them soft.

Well, one day I decided to just follow a recipe for Soft & Chewy Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies. Not only that, I followed the exact sugar measurements. Yikes!!

Yikes indeed. For 190g flour, there was 200g dark brown sugar and 100g granulated sugar. But to be fair, 240g old fashioned rolled oats were also added. But still, this is way more sugar than I am accustomed to.

I did not bake the cookies immediately (due to time constraint) and stashed the cookie dough in the freezer. Where it sat for some 3 weeks hah..hah... That's how enthusiastic I was about these cookies.

And then one weekend, I defrosted a batch of frozen cookie dough. It's really cool to have cookie dough in the freezer, you know. When the craving hits, you are set and ready to bake.

When these came out of the oven, they smelt wonderful. I usually bake my cookies around 20 minutes or more because I love them crunchy but this time I cut down to 15 minutes.

I couldn't wait to have a bite and ate one cookies while it was still hot. Ouch, ouch, ouch! Pleasure and pain. The cookie was crispy around the edges and chewy in the middle. Hey I like this!

Surprisingly, I was OK with the degree of sweet. Sure, it is sweeter than what I have come to expect of my cookies, but it was pleasantly tolerable.

I couldn't stop eating. Or rather chewing. I am converted. Soft chewy cookies are really good.

I actually learnt to eat soft chewy cookies when I arrived in US. They were sold everywhere in 7-Elevens or Cafes which took me a while to appreciate them. They were all sold at USD$1 each at the size of my palm. So I could nibble 2-3 times at college and kept them safely in the wrapper since already "Lau Hong".I might want to make your Soft & Chewy Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies! The recipe is easy to follow!

i'm a soft-baked cookie person! they have that satisfying sort of decadence compared to crispy cookies, which i generally find a bit dry. i wonder if we did a poll of kl's population, which would be the majority - the crispy people or the soft-baked people. i think it'd be the crispy!